There a Mother Wept
Dear Mother of my sworn enemy, My heart ached when I saw you weep - At the grave of your child, Whose voice you’ve yearned to hear; Whose warm hugs you’ve missed. You bought him a new pair of slippers, A pair of pants for him to wear. And those were his last requests to you. You would have expected a smile on his face - As he would happily put them on and say “ Ka kipah e Nu ” In you, I saw my mother. My mother would weep too - If her sons have suffered the same fate. A mother’s love is all the same. Be it Kuki or Meitei. May your love for your son be a message. A message to all those sons. That they too have an anxious mother, Waiting for them to come back home. Alive, not dead like yours.
